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Forty years on: The 1981 Brixton riots and Lord Scarman’s legacy on UK policing (Part 2) (2021)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2021). Forty years on: The 1981 Brixton riots and Lord Scarman’s legacy on UK policing (Part 2). Policing Insight,

Forty years ago this month, rioting erupted in Brixton – and later in 1981 across the country – leading to one of the most significant inquiries into policing in the UK; in the second half of a two-part feature, Dr Wendy Laverick of Hull University a... Read More about Forty years on: The 1981 Brixton riots and Lord Scarman’s legacy on UK policing (Part 2).

Forty years on: The 1981 riots and Lord Scarman’s legacy on UK policing (Part 1) (2021)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2021). Forty years on: The 1981 riots and Lord Scarman’s legacy on UK policing (Part 1). Policing Insight,

Forty years ago this month, rioting erupted in Brixton – and later in 1981 across the country – leading to one of the most significant inquiries into policing in the UK; in the first of a two-part feature, Dr Wendy Laverick of Hull University and Pro... Read More about Forty years on: The 1981 riots and Lord Scarman’s legacy on UK policing (Part 1).

Exploring the impact of body-worn video on the everyday behaviours of police officers (2021)
Journal Article
Harrison, K., L’Hoiry, X., & Santorso, S. (2022). Exploring the impact of body-worn video on the everyday behaviours of police officers. Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 95(2), 363-377. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X211000834

The use of body-worn video in Police Forces in England and Wales is not new. On the whole, evaluations have been positive, although, there is little evidence regarding how beneficial the cameras can be in terms of how they impact on the everyday beha... Read More about Exploring the impact of body-worn video on the everyday behaviours of police officers.

Legitimacy, democracy, decision-making: Policing the Clapham Common vigil (2021)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2021). Legitimacy, democracy, decision-making: Policing the Clapham Common vigil. Policing Insight,

Events that occurred on London’s Clapham Common last weekend received widespread international media coverage, much of which has focused on the nature of policing and querying its appropriateness; Professor Peter Joyce and Dr Wendy Laverick examine s... Read More about Legitimacy, democracy, decision-making: Policing the Clapham Common vigil.

Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men (2021)
Book
Nichols, H. (2021). Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429323850

Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men explores how adult male prisoners interpret and give value to their experiences of education, presenting an opportunity to consider how education can be beneficial to prisoners including and... Read More about Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men.

Policing mental illness: Police use of section 136 – Perspectives from police and mental-health nurses (2021)
Journal Article
Wondemaghen, M. (2021). Policing mental illness: Police use of section 136 – Perspectives from police and mental-health nurses. Medicine, Science and the Law, 61(4), 266-274. https://doi.org/10.1177/0025802421993363

Ideological shifts in mental health-care policy such as deinstitutionalisation have meant police have had to make decisions about the care of persons with a mental-health crisis. This study examines how police in five English counties respond to cris... Read More about Policing mental illness: Police use of section 136 – Perspectives from police and mental-health nurses.

A New Approach for Researching Victims: The 'Strength-Growth-Resilience' Framework (2021)
Journal Article
Green, S., Calverley, A., & O'leary, N. (2021). A New Approach for Researching Victims: The 'Strength-Growth-Resilience' Framework. The British journal of criminology, 61(3), 852-871. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaa093

This paper proposes a new framework for researching victims that blends appreciative inquiry methods used by prison researchers with narrative interview methods used by desistance researchers to investigate victim 'strength-growth-resilience'. Alongs... Read More about A New Approach for Researching Victims: The 'Strength-Growth-Resilience' Framework.

Post-pandemic policing and the long-term threat to police legitimacy (2021)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2021). Post-pandemic policing and the long-term threat to police legitimacy. Policing Insight,

The coronavirus pandemic has called for an extraordinary response from law enforcement; but Dr Wendy Laverick and Professor Peter Joyce believe the increasing politicisation of policing during the pandemic, the sidelining of PCCs and introduction of... Read More about Post-pandemic policing and the long-term threat to police legitimacy.